In the summer of 2009, Senator Webb and I had the honor of interviewing several potential candidates to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. We were enormously impressed by the quality of all the candidates being…

I think it was still the best, perhaps last best proposal to actually force this Congress to take an up-or-down vote on a plan that would put us back into fiscal sanity.

Legislation that would create such a database has been introduced by Senator Warner--it is S. 910.

A recent CBO study showed that an employer tax credit similar to the one in my bill is one of the most effective and efficient ways to spur job creation.

I am introducing an Employer Tax Credit co-sponsored in the Senate by the JEC colleague who is sitting next to me, Senator Casey, and my fellow New Yorker Kirsten Gillibrand.

To address our 'Too Big to Fail Problem,' we need to modernize financial regulation to address the problems of today, not of the past.

I thank you and Senator Shelby for having this hearing.

If they wanted to retain the banking license, they would have to live within the rules of a bank.

I would concur with Secretary Volcker, that having been pitched by some of those firms along my career, those Chinese walls disappear oftentimes when you are being pitched as a potential client, the value of being able to kind of commingle…

Most of the initial folks who got us into this downward spiral were not the commercial banks but were investment banks.

The legislative language I think has to be pretty clear, to tell the supervisors that if somebody is getting around the obvious intent of the rule, the supervisor can do something about it.

the Congress can play a very important role in ensuring effective implementation through its oversight function.

I want to start, again, by applauding the Secretary for his collaborative approach he has taken in trying to see how the Federal Government can be involved in strengthening these State and local efforts in terms of transit safety.

I urge the subcommittee to include the President's fiscal year 2011 budget request for Metro in the fiscal year 2011 THUD Appropriations bill.

We need to make sure we have got adequate Federal funding, and I am happy to see that the recently released conference report on the fiscal year 2010 Transportation, HUD appropriations bill includes about $150 million in new funding for…

I thank again Bob Menendez, who has done just a wonderful job on this issue as well.

This would be an effort that would not allow to supplement those efforts, but it would be for those companies, particularly foreign companies and others, that are looking at investing in America.

I appreciate your service as mayor and as somebody who has been involved in the nitty-gritty of economic development.

That is why I pledge to work with Senator Pryor to ensure that one factor to consider when selecting awards under S. 583 is whether the grant would help the transformation of military bases shuttered by the BRAC rounds into vibrant science…

I do appreciate and concur with my colleague from Florida, Senator Nelson, that the real value of these research facilities and their economic development potential.

How do we supplement existing State and local economic development efforts for site location for those companies that--where the jobs might otherwise be going abroad?

I'm very supportive of your effort, in terms of these innovation centers and research capabilities.

Why would anybody go innovate anymore? Why would anybody go and be an entrepreneur?

It would be money that would only be spent if jobs were added to the marketplace.

A group of Senators, including Senator Mark Warner, has suggested that a portion of the TARP money that has come back, that has gone to mega-businesses, be devoted to getting the credit market flowing in small businesses again.